Each Dragon Quest video game soundtrack has been arranged into an orchestral piece the series was the first to have a soundtrack performed by a live orchestra.Įarlier on in the series, Dragon Quest games were released under the title Dragon Warrior in North America to avoid trademark conflict with the role-playing game (RPG) DragonQuest, which was published by Simulations Publications in the 1980s until the company's 1982 bankruptcyand acquisition by TSR, Inc. Nearly every game in the main series has been adapted to anime and manga.
Installments of the series have appeared on MSX computers, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Game Boy Color (GBC), Game Boy Advance (GBA), Nintendo DS, PlayStation (PS1), PlayStation 2 (PS2), Wii video game consoles, and several models of mobile phone. The series has significantly impacted the development of console RPGs, and introduced a number of features to the genre.
Dragon Quest ( ドラゴンクエスト ?), published as Dragon Warrior in North America until 2005, is a series-currently nine main series titles and numerous spinoff titles-of internationally best-selling console role-playing video game (RPVG) titles created by Yuji Horii and his studio, Armor Project, and published by Square Enix (formerly Enix).
